[Beowulf] Intel motherboard BMC

[Jörg Saßmannshausen]

Hi Chris,

ok, you can change the 'hostname' of the BMC in the BIOS, but not in the GUI, 
which I found interesting but here you go. 
I changed it and I still got the same issue: I can login using the IP address 
but not the hostname. Here login, with the correct credentials, will be 
refused.
Also, on the host which is running firefox, the hostname and its IP address are 
in /etc/hosts and both the forward and backward IP lookup work correctly. 

So it was a good idea, but does not solve the problem.

Thanks for your help!

Jörg

Am Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2018, 20:26:42 BST schrieb Chris Samuel:
> On Thursday, 21 June 2018 8:17:15 PM AEST Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote:
> > However, given I can go to the login page and given I then get rejected by
> > the webserver and redirected to another page, I am not quite sure how that
> > could affect my ability to log in. Something I am missing here?
> 
> A web browser will send an HTTP "Host:" header for the website it is looking
> for, so perhaps the web app on the BMC will only honour logins where that
> matches what it thinks its hostname is (or its IP address).
> 
> You could test that by adding the hostname it thinks it has to your
> /etc/hosts and then using that hostname to access it.   I'd be a little
> surprised if it worked, but not too much given the general quality of
> BMCs...
> 
> cheers,
> Chris